Business Consulting for Mobile Mechanics in British Columbia
BC-specific business training for mobile HD mechanics running their own operation. Built for sole operators, not shops with four bays and a service manager.
Your Truck Is The Business. Your Rate Isn't Paying For It.
Red Seal ticket. Years on the tools. Clients who call you because you show up and you fix it right. But the money doesn't match the hours. Your rate was set by what other guys in the area charge, not what it costs to run your truck, your tools, your insurance, your diagnostic subscriptions, and your time. You don't know your real break-even rate. You have fleet accounts paying on 90-day terms while you're fronting parts on your credit card. You've eaten comebacks this year and never billed for them. You mobilize two hours round trip for a job that pays one hour. Your draw is whatever is left after everything else gets paid. You're running a real operation on gut feel, and the gap between what you gross and what you keep is getting harder to ignore.
The Problems That Cost You Money
Do any of these problems sound familiar? We have specific fixes for your specific problems.
No Real Break-Even Rate
Rate borrowed from competitors, not built from your actual costs. Every job you take may be subsidizing the client.
Mobilization Time Eaten
Two hours driving to a mine site and back absorbed as dead overhead. Never billed, never discussed.
Diagnostic Time Given Away Free
Two hours finding the fault, quote written for the repair only. Diagnosis doesn't show up on the invoice.
Parts Markup Not Calculated
Parts sold at cost plus a guess. Freight, sourcing time, and carrying cost are absorbed invisibly.
No Emergency Rate Premium
A 2am breakdown call on a weekend gets the same rate as a Tuesday afternoon PM. That is not a business decision, it is a habit.
Overhead Not Built Into Quotes
Truck payment, tool financing, insurance, diagnostic software — none of it formally calculated and included in the quote structure.
Billable Hours Overestimated
Pricing assumes 8 billable hours a day. Reality for a BC mobile sole operator is 4.5 to 5.5 after travel, admin, quoting, and parts runs.
Scope Creep With No Change Order Habit
Pull a seal, find a destroyed carrier bearing, fix it, don't charge for it. Three times a week, all year.
Fleet Accounts Paying in 90 Days
Parts fronted on the credit card in week one. Invoice paid in week fourteen. Interest is a cost of doing business that was never priced in.
No Deposit on Large Jobs
Mobilize for a $14,000 engine replacement with no money upfront. Client goes quiet at invoice. No leverage left.
Disputed Hours, No Defense
Client questions 8 hours on a time-and-material job. No signed daily time record, no documented authorization. The dispute wins by default.
GST Sitting in the Operating Account
Tax season bill wipes out the balance that looked healthy all year. The 5% was never separated and now it's already spent.
Repairers Lien Act Never Used
Completed work on equipment that hasn't been paid for. Had the right to file a lien. Didn't know it existed.
Draw Is Whatever Is Left
CRA, parts suppliers, and fuel cards get paid first. The owner's pay is whatever survived. That is not a business model.
One or Two Fleet Accounts Carry Everything
Lose one account and 60% of revenue disappears. The risk is known. The fix has never been built.
​Start with a free call. Choose the program that fits. Move at the pace your operation can handle.
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Step 1: Book a Free Discovery Call
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A 30-minute call. Bring the problems, not a list of questions. We figure out what's actually hurting your operation and which program is the right place to start.
No cost. No pitch. If we're not a fit, you'll know on the call.
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Step 2: Start With the Right Foundation
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Where you begin depends on where your business actually sits.
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The Tradesman Blueprint
is the foundation for new operations. 60 days. We build your real break-even rate from your actual costs, rebuild your quote structure so mobilization, diagnostic time, parts markup, and overhead are priced into every job, and set your deposit policy, account terms, collection protocol, and GST discipline. By the end, the operation runs on systems instead of gut feel. ​
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Journeyman Pathway
is the flagship for established operators, whether your financial fundamentals are broken or your base systems are solid and you're trying to scale without creating problems you don't have time to fix. Every membership opens with the Recalibrated diagnostic. We put your real numbers on the table and fix what's broken before building anything on top. If your foundation is already solid, you confirm it fast and move on. From there you work the tracks that matter most: Advanced Sales, Expanded Marketing, Operations & Structure, People & Growth, and Business Protection & Sustainability. Month to month, at the pace you choose.
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MasterKraft Consulting
is for operators whose situation doesn't fit a fixed program: multi-trade operations, partnership or family structures, business transitions, or specialty regulatory work. Hourly or retainer, scoped on the call. Quote-based pricing.
The discovery call confirms which one fits, and how fast you should move.
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